Media Reports on “Fears for Rivers” and Sellafield’s “Freedom to Pollute"
- wastwater1
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
The BBC and ENDS reports have published articles on the proposed legal challenge.
In both cases Sellafield say they will not put polluted water into the rivers. This is disingenous - their own application to the Environment Agency states that as well as to the Calder Interceptor Sewer discharges will be made to outfalls to the river Calder (which are not monitored). Along with this the groundwater movements at the site flow towards the river Ehen. The levels of groundwater predicted to be released by pile driving (of 17 piles) and tunnel excavation is phenomenal at 40 cubic metres an hour. Pile driving is known to impact groundwater movements as well as releasing water, usually not so drastic a release of water but Sellafield is basically built on fine grained silt, river terrace gravel and saturated sand and sandstone above aquifers already polluted by Sellafield. The groundwater on the Sellafield site is polluted not least from the leaking Magnox Silos. It's a right pickle but the nuclear waste industry still calls itself “clean.” The EA have rubber stamped these new works with no investigations or thought as to how this will impact the rivers, groundwaters and the health and safety of Cumbrians.
Please share the Crowd Justice page to raise awareness and if people can donate, to give us a fighting chance of stopping this reckless rubber stamping by the Environment Agency of ever more polluted waters into the rivers and sea.
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